"Is this really a genuine product? What's weird, those guys are crazy? Instead of salvaging a treasure ship, they hide it in the remote countryside of South Vietnam to deceive people?" Gao Qijing said with a confused look on his face.
The group of people defrauded them of some money, and then they spent all the money on eating, drinking and having fun.
They were caught and beaten, and finally some old porcelain was recovered.
This is why I brought it on board with the idea of doing not want it for free and trying to reduce some losses as much as possible.
Of course, maybe they were beaten severely, or maybe they were afraid of Gao Qijing and other ruthless people, so they were directly buried in a fake grave. These people said everything.
Among them was information about a treasure ship, because some of the porcelain they harvested were salvaged from the sea there.
However, all the others were sold, leaving only one of the best-preserved garlic bottles. Unexpectedly, not only did it not sell for a lot of money, it was directly snatched away by Gao Qijing.
At that time, Gao Qijing did not think that this garlic bottle was a real antique.
He can only make money one by one and recover the cost of being deceived as much as possible.
He really didn't expect that there would be an unexpected gain.
If this garlic bottle is really from the Ming Dynasty and is so well preserved, then with this one thing, they can get back all the money they were defrauded of.
Thinking of this, Gao Qijing immediately beamed.
"As soon as one piece of porcelain is found in Haihai, there will be a second, third, or even the 100,000th piece!"
After Chen Wenzhe finished speaking, he immediately squatted down and looked carefully at the pile of porcelain.
His heart is obviously bigger.
Soon, he picked out several blue and white pieces.
There is one piece inside, the cyan color is very conspicuous, even an inexperienced person can see the emerald color on it at a glance.
"Really?" Chen Wenzhe began to mutter.
Originally, he thought someone had accidentally discovered a shipwreck from the Ming Dynasty and salvaged a batch of them.
Maybe it's because the quality isn't that good, so I don't pay much attention to it.
But what was he seeing in front of him now? Unexpectedly, it was a piece of fine porcelain from the Qing Dynasty!
Of course, from the beautiful appearance, Chen Wenzhe knew that most of these porcelains were not porcelain from the sea.
That group of people not only dug up graves to deceive people, but also made them look old.
Obviously, this batch of porcelain should be a batch of sea-harvested porcelain specially made because of the garlic vase.
Fake sea-sourced porcelain is mostly made by loading new porcelain into a net and sinking it into the sea, where it is soaked for several months.
Counterfeiters often fasten one end of the net containing porcelain to a fixed object on the water surface (such as a barge, buoy, cage, etc.), and sink the other end into sea water for immersion for recovery.
What’s interesting is that they would sometimes lift the porcelain vessels up regularly and put some bait there to attract fish and shellfish from the sea to attach to the vessels and excrete them.
Usually after about half a year, these so-called "porcelain from the sea" can be released from the water.
There are flaws to be found in this kind of short-term soaking of porcelain.
The remains of seabed organisms attached to the porcelain look "wet" and "new", and some shellfish seem to have just "moved to a new home."
Some of the attachments still have a fresh feel. If you open individual shells and observe them, you will see that the color difference between the inside and outside is obvious.
They are usually old on the outside but very fresh on the inside, and some even have a distinct fishy smell.
Some of the remains of marine organisms are complete in shape, with edges and corners, and no signs of wear and tear.
The vast majority of these "haihai porcelain" are adhered to snail shells and their excrement.
Occasionally, there are deposits similar to inorganic salts. In fact, they are mashed with some substances and then glued on with adhesives.
This kind of fake sea-sourced porcelain is easy to distinguish from real calcium carbonate sediments.
These stuck-on things cannot be scraped off with nails, will not peel off even if soaked in water for a long time, and are difficult to scrape off with a knife.
When it is scraped off, the surface of the object is also damaged.
As far as Chen Wenzhe knows, among the Hai Lao porcelain currently on the market, there are still many genuine ones.
Therefore, there are not many people who specialize in making fake sea-sourced porcelain.
Unexpectedly, I didn’t meet him in China, but actually met him abroad.
There is nothing we can do about this. It is a small country with few people and no good things, so we can only use these dirty tricks.
Seeing these fake porcelain from the sea, Chen Wenzhe became interested in this kind of porcelain.
It is definitely not easy to collect some high-quality products in China.
However, collecting porcelain from the sea seems to be a shortcut.
There are quite a lot of porcelain fished from the sea in China.
As far as the whole vessel is concerned, genuine ceramics from before the Song Dynasty can often be seen, but most of them are common products.
As for the blue and white and celadon utensils that are of good quality, it is difficult to see the genuine ones in good condition.
After all, it’s not just the prospect of fishing for porcelain from the sea. Who in China doesn’t? There are many discerning people.
Therefore, the domestic Hai Lao porcelain market is also very prosperous, and it is very optimistic about the collection industry.
There are many reasons why Hailao porcelain is popular. First of all, although Hailao porcelain cannot be compared with the fine porcelain of official kilns, it has an innate historical background.
It can truly reflect that era, especially the historical information of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Through the archaeological research on the cargoes represented by porcelain in ancient shipwrecks, people can not only understand the cultural trade and other conditions at that time, but also have an intuitive understanding of the social life at that time, thus being able to better restore the original nature of history.
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Secondly, compared with official kiln porcelain, the quantity of Hailao porcelain is much larger and the price is more affordable.
With just one price, it is very suitable for public collection needs, allowing ordinary people to participate.
According to past data, even an ancient Chinese ship of less than 100 tons can carry more than 10,000 artifacts.
Therefore, the market price of a single piece of Hailao porcelain is actually not too high.
Take the 356,000 pieces of blue and white porcelain from the sunken ship "Taixing" that were publicly auctioned in Stuttgart, Germany, in November 2001. In this auction, many items were sold for only about 10 euros each.
In other words, at that time, each item was only 100 yuan.
In the antique market, authentic ancient porcelain only costs 100 yuan a piece. Even if it is an ordinary piece of folk kiln work, it is good to collect a few pieces, and no one will bear too much of a burden.
As long as it is guaranteed to be genuine and the price is cheap, how big is the market?
Therefore, the most important thing is fidelity, and this is not difficult to ensure on Hai Lao Porcelain.
Because the discovery process of salvaged porcelain is itself the best proof of its authenticity.
As porcelain directly salvaged from the seabed, it is relatively easy to identify its age and authenticity, and the authenticity rate will be relatively higher.
And these are the most important points for collectors who are keen on collecting Hailuo porcelain.